L for Leisure. 2014. Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

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L for Leisure. 2014. USA. Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn. 74 min.

Critical theory meets Carsey-Werner sitcom in Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn’s improbable ode to holiday fun, L for Leisure. Set in the early 1990s, the film features a group of attractive graduate school co-eds who jet from one upscale vacation spot to the next, tossing off deadpan one-liners about the end of history and race as a social construct along the way. Adorned with a gauzy synth-pop score, L for Leisure is both a delicious social satire and a dreamy, almost sci-fi evocation of a nattily brainy alternate past.

This film accompanies Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You: 2014.

Past events

Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 4:15 p.m.

Introduced by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Sat, Dec 13, 2014, 8:00 p.m.

Introduced by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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